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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 Was a Bipartisan Deal Worth Studying How Ronald Reagan, Bill Bradley and Dan Rostenkowski traded lower rates for closing tax shelters in 1986, why the deal worked, and how the bargain came apart in the decades after. The Treaty of Detroit and the Bargain That Built the Blue-Collar Middle Class The 1950 five-year UAW-GM contract traded labor peace for pensions, health coverage and steady raises. How that bargain built a middle class, and why it came apart. The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Wealth That Burned on Greenwood What a white mob destroyed in Tulsa's Greenwood district in 1921, how insurers and the city refused to make it whole, and why the fight for repair has lasted more than a century. The UAW's Stand Up Strike Against All Three Detroit Automakers In September 2023 the UAW struck GM, Ford and Stellantis at once, plant by plant. How the rolling strategy worked, what the contracts won and what other unions took from it. The Wagner Act of 1935 and the Right Most Workers Still Cannot Use The 1935 law that created the NLRB promised workers the right to organize. Here is who it left out, how its weak remedies work, and why winning a union is still so hard. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the Veto Congress Overrode How Congress overrode Richard Nixon to pass the War Powers Resolution in November 1973, what the law requires, and why presidents of both parties have pushed past it. The Wilmington Coup of 1898 and an Elected Government Driven Out by Force How an armed white mob overthrew Wilmington, North Carolina's elected biracial government in November 1898, why no one was punished, and what it teaches about protecting elections. The Year Child Poverty Fell by Nearly Half, and Why It Came Back In 2021 a monthly child tax credit drove child poverty to the lowest rate on record; when the payments stopped it more than doubled. Here is the case for bringing it back for good. Title I and the 1965 Law Signed in Front of a One-Room Schoolhouse Lyndon Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act beside his first school in 1965. How its Title I money for poor children works, and why it is under pressure now. Trans Athletes, Title IX and the Fight Over Who Gets to Play The arguments about fairness, safety and inclusion in girls' and women's sports, laid out honestly, from the February 2025 executive order to the Supreme Court's 2026 ruling. Truman's 1945 Health Plan and the AMA Campaign That Buried It How Truman's 1945 call for national health insurance died: a two-word label, a California consulting firm, a famous painting and a lobbying drive paid for by doctors. Twenty-Five Cents an Hour: How the Fair Labor Standards Act Passed How Frances Perkins and Franklin Roosevelt won the first federal minimum wage and 40-hour week in 1938, the fight it took to pass, and the workers it left out by design.